Roos in pigtures (with some (friday) videos)

This message has been long overdue. Maybe a week before Easter, our gorgeous Roos was squeaking in pain. We gave her some pain meds, and she seemed to approve a bit, same thing the next day, as it was almost weekend (and vets would be closed) we took her to the vet. She had diarrhea so we got some Cisaral to keep the gut moving and some painkiller (Carprofen) - Both fall in the Piggy a-z for C? but I am not too sure how dutch these names are.. 

Roos can do it too (you hear me say well done Roos!) And will find the cucumber when pointed out to her #guineapigs #treats #TeachnTreat

A video posted by Mieke (@pandameisje) on May 30, 2014 at 1:42pm PDT

She seemed to be okay and the diarrhea cleared up, but something seemed not right to me. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention she kept getting very bloated, but it did not sound like gas, and felt more spongy. I got a message from my boyfriend who was home earlier then I was, that she was bloated again. This was just before the long Easter weekend. I called the vet hoping to get an appointment that evening. They had a spot, so Erwin (boyfriend) took her to the vet and I traveled to the vet as well... News was not good, she had a bladder stone and it was lodged in her urethra.

Roos' Xray you can see the stone lodged between the hip bones. :'(

A photo posted by Mieke (@pandameisje) on Mar 25, 2016 at 5:00am PDT

Diagnosis was not so good, and the vet was hesitant to operate, as this would very likely damage the nerves there and make her unable to hold up her pee... So we were left with the choice to either find a vet willing to operate (it was almost eight in the evening then) or have her put to sleep. It was a hard decision to make as up until recently she did not seem ill at all... But mostly because of the small chance of her healing up well (if surviving surgery at all, piggies are just so fragile), we decided to have her put to sleep. She went to sleep very fast, and we were sad, but also hoping we made the right choice in stopping her suffering.

Roos with her daddy @lordthunder666 in this pigture you can almost see how pretty her colour is in real life ;)

A photo posted by Mieke (@pandameisje) on Jun 8, 2014 at 12:16pm PDT

Roos was a gift from me to Erwin for his birthday 4 years ago. We had her for exactly 4 years, she was 4,5 years old, as she was put down the evening before Erwin's birthday. She was one of the sweetest piggies we have ever had. I remember the lady we got her from telling us, she was very tame. I wondered why she said that, because she seemed very afraid of us at first, not tame at all. However when she got used to us she was really a sweet thing. We could pet her in the cage, and she did the cutest thing. If you stopped petting her, usually she had lain down already enjoying the massage, she would lift up her head as if to say 'Don't stop!'. Towards the other piggies she could be quite strict, after Woopy left us, she was the new ruler, with a bit of an iron paw. But she could also be really sweet snuggling with Peaches (a lot!). This surprised me as well, because when we just got Peaches, Roos would chase her around endlessly...

Roos and peaches have a new hobby: #cuddle time #guineapigs Taken 14 November

A photo posted by Mieke (@pandameisje) on Nov 19, 2015 at 2:14am PST

Here's some more pigtures and video's of Roos... we miss ya!

More #sleeping Roos #guineapig

A photo posted by Mieke (@pandameisje) on Aug 6, 2014 at 10:57am PDT

#Roos having second breakfast, or third, fourth, fifth... Who knows? #guineapig #eating

A photo posted by Mieke (@pandameisje) on Aug 15, 2014 at 4:48am PDT

Piggies got to play outside! #guineapigs #grass #yum #tryingoutrun

A video posted by Mieke (@pandameisje) on Aug 9, 2015 at 3:52am PDT

An old line up: Lily, Roos (a few months old there), Daisy and Woopy

Friday video: Guinea pig bridge!

Friday video: Guinygirlz morning feeding ritual

Mom filmed us getting our morning piece of veggie today...



We were pretty well behaved, sometimes we fall over each other, and lean on the others back to be higher up and run against the window to get to the veggies first. Tijger will start doing spins when she gets impatient.. but today we behaved for the video.

How does your morning ritual look? We would love to see little videos of it.

Have great Wheekend,
the Guinygirlz and boar Berke

Friday video: A shed full of guinea pigs....

Friday video: New hutch tour: the hayloft (pt2)

Part 2 of the hutch tour of our friend @Bertieguineapig, showing their hayloft. This is the sequel to the video we had last friday.

Another video (that cannot wait till Friday) Happy Valentine's day!

Friday video: New hutch tour (pt1)

One of the piggies we are following on twitter (@bertieguineapig) has a new hutch. So to open the wheekend (at least here in the Netherlands it's almost wheekend) here's a cage tour of their new hutch



Have a great wheekend, and give some kisses to your slaves on valentine's day this sunday!
The guinygirlz: Roos, Peaches, Berke and Tijger

Friday video & Piggy A-Z: C for card game

Hi,

My name is Peaches, also known as Agent Boo.

I want to tell you something about what my slave, with a lot of help from our readers here, has made.
Our readers have send in pigtures of all kinds of lovely and handsome piggies, which slave bundled in one card game.

You(r slave) can order this card game! If they want to order it right now, have a look here.

The dutch game 'Kwartet', also know as 'Quartets', was used as a basis. The goal of the game is to collect as many kwartetten / quartets as you can. Every player starts of with 7 cards in their hards. On the table the rest of the cards are kept on a stack with the pictures facing down, so no one can see what the next card on the stack is.
The game has 11 different categories, most categories are piggy breeds, like smooth-haired piggies, US teddies and Rexes and so on. Other categories include some members of one herds, like the Piggyfriends, Indiana piggies or my herd, the Guinygirlz. There are also other themes like piggies with Flower names and white piggies.

Mom still has 7 games in stock, and hopes to sell those too. So please buy one (or more)! Once those are sold we can make another donation to a guinea pig shelter somewhere in the world. Everyone can suggest shelters and then vote for their favorite shelter. So next to getting a cool game you also get to support a shelter!
Read a bit about the price and order here, send us an email for shipping, but Mikey will contact you with the pric for the game plus shipping before sending the game to you. If you have doubt after ordering and hearing the total price just let her know. Great thing about the card games is though, that they are quite small and fit in an envelope quite easily making them less expensive to send by mail.

Slave was looking for a nice video about playing the 'Kwartet' game, but apparently this is a really dutch game, it is similar to Go Fish! But mum thinks it is slightly different from what she understood from the videos explaining how to play Go Fish!!
But she did find this rather nice very stereo typical dutch/english video for the dutch airline KLM. This game has dutch historical houses, but the idea is the same with our guinea pig game...

Hope we get to sell the last 7 games, and possibly even more...

Agent Boo aka Peaches

P.s. all buyers of the game so far, maybe you can comment below what you think of your game? Hope you are all enjoying it.

Friday video: Agents and the CTU - Cavia Training Unit

We found this video of unknown agents to us, going through the Cavia Training Unit...
We got our own version with a shoebox and chopsticks... not impressed so far.. why go in between the sticks when you can throw it up to go underneath the sticks?

Friday video: Presents!

Okay, we know christmas isn't until almost a whole year.

And that the yuletide is over again,

but this is a cute video of piggies

getting their christmas presents...

You always like to watch piggies, right?

We hope you still enjoy this video we found, even though the holiday season is over already...

Friday video: Guinea pigs about pumpkin spice and smell-o-vision

Hi all,

Slave hasn't managed to figure our how to embed this video, so you could watch it right from this post, but she does want to share it.
We hope the video loads for you, as it does not seem to load for auntie M...

Enjoy,
Guinygirlz and boar Berke

See the video here:
http://www.hlntv.com/shows/fluff/articles/2015/10/30/fluff-episode-1-guinea-pigs-and-pumpkin-spice

p.s. It starts with a commercial, so wait for the piggies...

Spooky Halloween themed Friday video

We tried to find a creepy halloween-themed friday video...
Not sure we succeeded, let us know if you found any better ones;)

Friday video: Piggie city dwellers

We liked this video, because it depicts the day in the life of a human, ehm Guinea pig...

Friday Video: Hamster Jazz Band

Take note egg card, you should have kept with the guinea pig adverts who wants to see dolphins, keep it small and furry!!

Friday Video; This is a Merino Guinea Pig

Or is it really a cute ball of fluff?



In other news I am now 6 years and 6 months old go me!!

Friday Video: A Bit of Guinea Pig Fun

We love this layout with the hidey holes and play areas!!

Friday Video: Fun Treat for Piggies

We have had toilet roll tubes stuffed with hay and they are great fun especially when you hit your cage mates over the head with them **heehee** but we think adding fresh veggies will make them even more fun

Friday Video: Making the Piggy House

We are not actually sure what the title of this video is as it may be in German however we love the end result, enjoy!!

Friday video: Trash cat

Friday video: Basil!

Slave really enjoyed this video of our friends of the Cali Cavy Collective eating Basil


If you want to read their accompanying blog post, find it here:
http://www.calicavycollective.com/2015/06/basil.html